Citymaps aims to make maps social
(AP)—Maps are where it's at. Just ask Google, which bought maps app Waze for more than $1 billion, or Apple, which snapped up two small mapping startups earlier this month.
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Jul 25, 2013
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Web tool could help measure subjective impressions of urban environments
CAMBRIDGE, Mass- The "broken-windows theory," which was propounded by two Harvard University researchers in the early 1980s, holds that urban "disorder"—visible signs of neglect, such as broken windows—actually promotes ...
Social Sciences
Jul 24, 2013
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Google ditches location-sharing feature in map apps
Google on Wednesday released an upgraded version of its popular maps app for Android-powered smartphones and tablets that ditches a Latitude feature that let people share locations with family or friends.
Software
Jul 10, 2013
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Hawaii hiking trails to be on Google Street View
(AP)—Hawaii's volcanoes will soon be visible on Google Street View.
Internet
Jun 27, 2013
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Rivals seek tough EU antitrust action on Google
A coalition of Google's competitors urged the European Union's antitrust watchdog Tuesday to reject the Internet giant's proposed concessions on displaying search results.
Business
Jun 25, 2013
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Google begins launching Internet-beaming balloons (Update)
Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet online. Eighteen months in the works, the top-secret project was ...
Telecom
Jun 15, 2013
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Google launches Internet-beaming balloons
Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish-shaped balloons that Google released this week from a frozen field in the heart of New Zealand's South Island hardened into shiny pumpkins as they rose into the blue ...
Telecom
Jun 15, 2013
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Google snaps up Waze to add to mapping service (Update)
Google is buying online mapping service Waze in a $1.03 billion deal that keeps a potentially valuable tool away from its rivals while allowing it to gain technology that could improve the accuracy and usefulness of its own ...
Internet
Jun 11, 2013
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New app helping Venezuelans find scarce items
Harried Venezuelans who devote hours scouring supermarkets for increasingly scarce food basics and toilet paper have just received some digital help thanks to a young software developer.
Software
Jun 9, 2013
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Google rolls its own keyboard app for Android 4.0 and up
(Phys.org) —Google Maps, Google Drive, Google This, Google That….But there is always room for one more new arrival from Google, and now it is in the form of an app called Google Keyboard. Available at the Google Play ...
